Looking Ahead to Kaska’s 2026 Hunting Season

Kaska’s 2026 waterfowl hunting trips are starting to fill, however we still have a good selection of trip dates available. As of March 11th, 2026 our trip openings are as follows:

Click to check our 2025 hunting package prices and availability.

If you are looking for an exceptional waterfowl hunting adventure, Kaska Goose Lodge should be at the top of your list. Hunters can take advantage of our $100 per person early booking / early deposit discount by booking their trip by December 31st, 2025.

2025 Season

We flew into the lodge from Thompson on August 27th.  The weather along the Hudson Bay Coast was mild with sunny skies and light winds.  On the flight into the lodge we counted 17 polar bears spread out along the coast to the west of Kaska.   The camp in good shape, other than our septic tank pump box to the east of Ptarmigan cabin, which the black bears had totally destroyed.

Our 2025 season offered a pleasant change to the dry and above normal temperature trend we had been experiencing since 2022.  The first two weeks of our 2025 season were cool, cloudy with several days of rain.  Temperatures ranged from the high 30’s to the high 40’s F. for the first 10 days of  September, with  the day time highs finally reaching the mid-60’s and into the mid-70’s the week of September 14th.  The temperature peaked at a hot 84 F September 15th.  For the last two weeks of our season temperatures ranged between the low 40’s to the mid-60’s. 

2025 was our best hunting season since 2018.  We had another excellent hunting season for ducks, as well as Canada geese, with many groups limiting out.  The snow geese arrived earlier this year than 2024, with the first flocks of snows and blues passing over Kaska the first few days of September.  These flocks were mainly non-breeding adults, with no juveniles or Ross Geese taken by our hunters.  Early September dark geese numbers were dominated by giant Canadas with lesser Canadas and Richardson geese taking over after mid-September.

The prevailing winds started out from the north for the first 10 days of September.  For the remainder of the season there was no pattern to the winds with the direction switching between northerly to southernly every couple of days.  The migration ebbed and flowed, according to the wind direction.  When the winds became easterly or north easterly the snows would take to the skies and we would see good numbers of geese in the skies above the lodge, but with south and west winds, they were happy  to just sit, eat and relax.

On days when the geese were content to sit, guests using the helicopter to give them access to the areas near the lodge where the snows were congregating were generally more successful than the hunters choosing to hunt our island.

When the geese were migrating, guests hunting our island had good success.  The snows tended to stay near the coast and a couple of new blinds we built close to the coast on the east side of the island last season saw some good action from migrating snows, as well as dark geese.  The large,  “permanent” decoy set-up we have at blind #1 East near the lodge was consistent in attracting migrating snows.

This season also offered our guests and staff some truly amazing brook trout fishing, as water levels were low most of the season.  It wasn’t uncommon for guests and staff fishing the Kaskattama River in front of the lodge to catch and releaseas many as 40+ brookies in an hour or two.

Nature-viewing opportunities abounded at Kaska, with black bears wandering through camp, a pack of Hudson Bay wolves (Canis lupus hudsonicus), being seen regularly by staff and guests near the lodge, as well as the airstrip.  Several polar bears were seen walking the beach, crossing our island from east to west, as they moved north, waiting for the sea ice to form.

With another hunting season behind us we are starting to look forward and plan for 2026.